A company requires all system logs to be saved for a minimum 30 days. However, many employees are reporting storage near capacity alerts. A cloud administrator is trying to fix and prevent this issue

Automating deletion of logs older than 30 days directly addresses the root cause of storage exhaustion by ensuring logs are pruned daily once the minimum retention period is satisfied. This approach is policy-compliant - logs are retained for the required 30 days - and eliminates manual intervention, preventing the issue from recurring. Running the cleanup job daily ensures consistent, predictable storage usage over time.

Archiving logs older than 30 days moves data to a secondary store but does not free primary storage unless the originals are also deleted, so capacity alerts would continue.

Migrating archiving storage to offline backup introduces unnecessary complexity and does not guarantee timely removal of logs from primary storage where the capacity issue exists.

Adding more capacity treats the symptom rather than the cause; without automated cleanup, storage will eventually fill again regardless of how much capacity is provisioned.